Puar, Jasbir

"The body remembers what the mind forgets."

"We must learn to live with complexity and ambiguity."

"The personal is not just political; it is also theoretical."

"Grief is a form of connection to those we have lost."

"We are responsible to those who come after us."

"The archive is a battlefield where meanings are contested."

"Affect theory teaches us that feeling is not opposed to thinking."

"The queer archive is a practice of survival and resistance."

"We must attend to what has been rendered invisible."

"Kinship is not a biological given but a political formation."

"The nation depends on the suppression of desire and affect."

"We inherit not just genes but ways of being in the world."

"The body is the site where power relations are written."

"Temporality is not neutral; it is always already structured by power."

"We must learn to think with and through difference."

"The queer life is one lived in excess of the norm."

"Debt is a form of social relation that structures all of our interactions."

"The archive is never innocent; it is always already ideological."

"We are all implicated in the violences we seek to oppose."

"The future is being made in the present through our struggles."

"Kindness is not opposed to critique but essential to it."

"We must learn to love differently, queerly, in ways not yet imagined."

"The body is a site of both vulnerability and power."

"We are shaped by forces beyond our individual control or comprehension."

"The nation-state manufactures consent through narratives of inevitability."

"We must develop an ethics of care that extends beyond the human."

"The future is not about progress but about transformation."

"Affect attaches us to the world in ways that shape our possibilities."

"We are all haunted by the pasts that constitute us."

"The queer is not a fixed identity but a mode of relation."